Well known personalities who have passed away recently (Renamed)

[Jerry_Atrick]

Well known personality in Aussie aviation ciricles, Max Hazelton died at 95 years of age. Vale, ol' chap!

Edited April 10, 2023 by Jerry_Atrick

[facthunter]

From CUDAL wasn't he?  Croppie.  Nev

[willedoo]

Hazelton Airlines, later Rex Airlines.

[old man emu]

Started out in 1953 serving the Orange NSW to Sydney route using an Auster. Established an aerial agriculture business based at Cudal near Orange. Then got a few intrastate RPT routes. He also was involved in training Chinese pilots in the art of flying low and spreading shit. Never met him, but the gossip is that he was a decent sort of bloke.

 

He made an unplanned landing with the Auster in the tiger country of the Blue Mountains and it took him about ten days to walk out. He grew Hazleton Airlines into a Public Company and at retirement it was bought out by Rex.

 

[Old Koreelah]

4 hours ago, old man emu said:

He made an unplanned landing with the Auster in the tiger country of the Blue Mountains and it took him about ten days to walk out. He grew Hazleton Airlines into a Public Company and at retirement it was bought out by Rex.

An expanded version of that amazing story was featured here years ago.
Movies have been made about lesser adventures.

[old man emu]

Jerry will probably be the only one who will know this person, but Paul O'Grady passed away in England on 22nd March. Paul was an entertainer, radio and television host, and author. He is best known for his outrageous character, Lily Savage. Lily was ... Well this explains her best:

 

 

Apart from Lilly, Paul is also known for his series dealing with abandoned pets at the Battersea Dogs Home. He also had a highly rated daytime talk show. 

[Jerry_Atrick]

I heard he/she had died, but I had not heard of him prior. But, then, I am faiurly ignorant of celeibrities (and in general, I suppose).

[old man emu]

Paul was definitely a "He", as well as being Gay. He was an exponent of that British entertainment staple, the female impersonator. Lily Savage was a character, just as Dame Edna is a character. He wasn't a transvestite. He was involved in many areas of entertainment from stage comedy to documentaries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O'Grady

 

There is a big difference between a "female impersonator" and a "drag queen". The difference was probably best expressed by an earlier famous exponent of the art, Danny La Rue who said that a female impersonator is a "comic in a dress". Each female impersonator has their own characterisation. La Rue did celebrity impersonations. Barry Humphries did Dame Edna. Paul O'Grady was Lily Savage, a overly tarted up, venomous tongued cheap prostitute, and housewife. 

[red750]

Then there's Dick Emery  --  "Ooh you are awful...but I like you",

 

 

 

and Brendan O'Carroll, Mrs Brown.

 

[old man emu]

I suppose female impersonators in English theatre goes back at least to Elizabethan times when women were not permitted to perform on stage. Perhaps that was an effect of Protestantism' sense of morality. As the taboo faded and women started playing female roles, the role of pantomime dame developed. A set piece female impersonation role is the Widow Twankey. Originally in comic satire based on the story of Aladdin the concept soon passed into other pantomime  productions such as Cinderella. 

 

The name Twankay appears first in 1861. It was named after a cheap brand of China tea. Twankay, or 'twankey' is an inferior grade of green tea, with an old, ragged, open leaf – the implication is that the widow is 'past her best' — with the name Twankay deriving from Tunxi in Anhui, from where the tea in China originates.

[Marty_d]

I reckon the segregated British school system might have had something to do with it too.  Lots of conservative MP's son's who like to dress like dad.

[facthunter]

NO SEX Please. We're British..  Nev

[nomadpete]

4 hours ago, facthunter said:

NO SEX Please. We're British..  Nev

The French have love lives.........

The British have hot water bottles.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Often cultures are very different to their street reputations.. This ieither shows more brits are unhappy in their relationship or are pretty eactive between the sheets (or wherever they like to do it). Australia doesn't even make the top 10: https://www.indiatoday.in/mad-mad-world/story/which-country-ranks-top-on-adultery-here-is-a-list-of-top-10-241286-2015-02-20

 

 

[nomadpete]

Nobody mentioned illicit sex!

That is a horse of a different colour!

 

And another thing, you are damaging your credibility by usin the UK Daily Mirror as a data source.

Edited April 21, 2023 by nomadpete

[Jerry_Atrick]

Well, sometimes, even I have to resort to less than credible sources (somehow, I won't take any poll on infidelity seriously)...

 

[facthunter]

They used to talk of a thing called "discretion". . It probably doesn't work at the local pub where local gossips abound. They know what you're doing when you never even thought about it. .  Nev

[nomadpete]

10 hours ago, facthunter said:

They know what you're doing when you never even thought about it. .  Nev

And even if you never did it.....

whatever that was

[nomadpete]

Well known personalities who have passed away

 

Every day  look up this thread in case my name is there.............

[red750]

My son told me at 8:56 pm tonight that Barry Humphries had passed away. After the past couple of days, it had kind of been expected. When the family is summoned from overseas.....

[old man emu]

He's the second celebrity who has passed away after hip surgery. Makes you wonder what is wrong with the procedure.

[Jerry_Atrick]

3 hours ago, nomadpete said:

Well known personalities who have passed away

 

Every day  look up this thread in case my name is there.............

A legend in his own mind

[Jerry_Atrick]

2 hours ago, old man emu said:

He's the second celebrity who has passed away after hip surgery. Makes you wonder what is wrong with the procedure.

OK.. Everyone.. No breaking hips!

[red750]

I enjoyed Barry's comedy, Dame Edna and Sir Les. Never saw much of Sandy Stone. Barry was 89.

 

According to Albo's tribute on Facebook, Barry entertained us from birth.

 

[facthunter]

Babies are entertaining from birth. Can't you remember?. You can't just ignore them.  Nev